Felice wants to buy a flat panel.  She was set on a Sony, but "Sound & Vision" said Samsung made the LCD with the best blacks.  So we drove down to Best Buy.We didn’t see a salesman and couldn’t make sense of the inventory.  I don’t want to buy what’s available in your store, I […]

The second side of "We’re Only In It For The Money" opens with "Flower Punk":Hey punk, where you going with that flower in your hand?I’m goin’ up to Frisco to join a psychedelic bandNotice Zappa didn’t write SAN FRANCISCO! His audience knew what he meant by "Frisco", he assumed a level of intelligence, of […]

iPhoneDo not buy before they release the vaunted 3G model, which Steve Jobs will probably announce at next month’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference, and should be available by July.Once you can surf the Web at high speed beyond wi-fi range, with a functional browser, demand will surge… In the U.S. anyway.BlackBerry remains the device of […]

My goal is to never talk on the phone. It’s the biggest time-waster in my life. Usually spent with people trying to convince me they can do what’s never been done, can win what’s never been won, meanwhile, the minute hand is racing around the clock (if you don’t get the reference, fire […]